Grassroots Fight the ‘Freedom of Choice Act’

The U.S. Bishops have launched a grass roots Poster and Post Card Campaign.

1. Download the Posters here: http://www.usccb.org/prolife/media/

2. Download the Postcard Instructions here: http://www.nchla.org/datasource/idocuments/Instructions.pdf

Obama’s “Abortion Reduction” Distortion Manipulates Catholics

Sen. Barack Obama’s “faith outreach” manipulates Catholic voters

National Review Online

Unholy Messaging

Obama’s faith-based try vs. his positions

By Douglas Johnson, Legislative Director, National Right To Life Committee

Selected Excerpts:

The Barack Obama “messaging machine” is now in full overdrive mode, seeking to mislead religiously committed Americans into thinking that Obama has a middle-of-the-road position on abortion policy and will promote “abortion reduction.”

One important part of the “faith outreach” sales pitch has been to insist that Obama would promote “abortion reduction” policies — that is to say, policies that would have the practical effect of reducing the number of abortions performed, without actually restricting abortion directly. This spiel was really a public relations strategy cooked up at a liberal think tank called third way, where veteran pro-abortion activists develop “messaging” strategies to help pro-abortion politicians camouflage their positions. The third way “Culture Program” (responsible for the “abortion reduction” strategy, among other projects) is directed by Rachel Laser, whose previous job was with the Health and Reproductive Rights group at the National Women’s Law Center, and who before that worked for Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, a major abortion provider.

But despite such efforts, more and more Americans are learning that the real Barack Obama is firmly committed to an agenda of sweeping pro-abortion policy changes that, if implemented, could be expected to drastically increase the numbers of abortions performed.

One component of the Obama abortion agenda, the so-called “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA S. 1173), is coming under increased scrutiny from many quarters. The FOCA is the most sweeping piece of pro-abortion legislation ever proposed in Congress. It is a bill that would establish a federal “abortion right” broader than Roe v. Wade and, in the words of the National Organization for Women, “sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion laws [and] policies.”

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Pro-Abortion Catholics for Obama used scare tactics

Churches Can Ignore Catholics United, Pro-Life Literature Distribution Not Illegal

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
November 2, 2008

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — A leading pro-life attorney who is the dean of a law school says Catholic and Protestant churches and pastors need not worry about pro-life literature distribution occurring this weekend. Matt Staver of the Liberty Counsel tells LifeNews.com the dissemination of pro-life information is perfectly legal.

The reassurances from Staver, founder of the pro-life law firm known as Liberty Counsel and the dean of the law school at Liberty University in Virginia, come after groups made threats this week.

Catholics United, a front group for Barack Obama that has misled some Catholic voters into thinking he is pro-life on abortion, urged its supporters to confront pro-life advocates this weekend.

The Obama backers were told to ask Catholic priests and church leaders to block the distribution of the pro-life voting information and suggested the pro-life fliers be removed from vehicles.

Father Frank Pavone, the founder and director of Priests for Life, emailed CU officials and told them he would consider legal action if pro-life advocates are prevented from exercising their First Amendment rights to educate voters on pro-life issues.  [ 'Fr. Frank Pavone Warns Catholics United of Possible Lawsuits' ]

Barry Lynn, the head of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, has also scared pastors, priests and other church leaders with a letter saying they could face the loss of their nonprofit status for allowing the information.

Staver tells LifeNews.com that pro-life people distributing voter information are within their legal grounds and Constitutional rights.

“Barry Lynn’s attempt to scare pastors is as hollow as a Halloween Jack-O-Lantern,” Staver said.

He said Lynn’s group has “once again have cluttered mailboxes and jammed fax machines with the same worn out, toothless letter that attempts to scare pastors about politics, in an attempt to trick them into being silent until after the election.”

“The truth is that pastors and church leaders do not need to violate IRS regulations on political activity in order to impact the 2008 election. There are a wide variety of permissible activities to activate voters and encourage them to vote their values,” Staver said.

FULL STORY:  http://www.lifenews.com/nat4530.html

Catholics In Name Only, USCCB Denounced by Bishop Martino

Topics:  Faithful Citizenship, Freedom of Choice Act

TWO STORIES:

Bishop shows up unannounced at election forum, defends Church’s stance on abortion

“The USCCB doesn’t speak for me.”—-Bishop Joseph Martino, Scranton, PA

Opinion:  Bishop Martino is Right, ‘This is Madness People’

After listening to some of the speakers attempt to take the most recent letter of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on “Faithful Citizenship”, turn it on its head through sophistry, and then use it as a framework to influence Catholics to support a candidate who has pledged as their first official act if elected to the Presidency to sign the “Freedom of Choice Act” into law (even though an alternative exists which would at least limit the evil of procured abortion) the Bishop stepped up to the microphone. He told those present: “No social issue has caused the death of 50 million people”, referring of course to the current evil of abortion on demand as it exists in the United States of America since the horrible judicial opinions in Roe and Doe. Then he spoke those four words, “This is Madness People.”

Related:

Freedom of Choice Act

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.01173:

http://www.nchla.org/issues.asp?ID=50

Bishop warns of Obama’s abortion promise

Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA)

“The first things I will do as president is enact the Freedom of Choice Act.”

Bishop Warns of Obama’s Promise To Implement Extreme “Freedom of Choice Act.”

Gay Porn Producer Funds Barack Obama

TWO STORIES:

Gay Porn Producer Terrence Bean – Oregon RE developer – Raises Money for Obama Campaign

Keywords:  Gov. Ted Kulongoski

New York Post 10/10

‘National Stories about Portland developers are weird’

Daily Journal of Commerce – Oregon

• Commentary -  We at Fidelity and Action wonder why the DJC is so surprised about the connections between hardcore gay porn and a real estate developer in Portland? Perhaps they’re not aware that for 10 years the Portland Oregon Visitors Association’s director Joe Allessandro was openly gay.  POVA has its own gay Portland page .  Gays have a yellow pages.  And gays have a chamber of commerce for Portland and SW WA  -  http://www.paba.com  – an affiliate of www.nglcc.org  .  Mustang is a sponsor of Portland’s Pride Parade and the Oregon Bears.

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Defunding ACORN: Catholic Campaign for Human Development

Thanks to radio talk shows like Hugh Hewitt and Rush Limbaugh, ACORN is getting the outing it deserves.  We at Fidelity and Action have been withholding donations to the Archdiocese because of ACORN.  Not only is ACORN involved in voter fraud and embezzlement, but also is pro-abortion.

Stephanie Block has written a good piece at Spero News . . .

‘Defunding ACORN is laudable but insufficient.’

Related stories:

‘CCHD End Funding To ACORN over financial irregularities.’

‘Catholic Campaign for Human Development:  Update’ - Stephanie Block.  2003.  The Wanderer.

Oregon Governor will Host NARAL Gala

NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon’s announcement:

In this historic election year, NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon is pleased to announce that the

Honorable Governor Ted Kulongoski and First Lady Mary Oberst

will host

our Annual Political Gala on

Friday, October 3, 2008

at the Marriott Downtown Portland

1401 SW Naito Pkwy
Portland, OR 97201

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The event will begin at 6pm, with a 5:30 pm champagne reception exclusively for table hosts featuring the Governor and First Lady.

NOTE: Archbishop Vlazny celebrates a Pro-Life Mass at the Cathedral, downtown Portland, 2 days later!

Catholic League: Obama and Infanticide

Pro-”choice” Catholics will vote for Barack Hussein Obama.  You’ve seen the bumper stickers in church parking lots, read about them on the internet, in news reports, and heard them on the radio talk shows.

Show them this!

Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights:

Obama and Infanticide

In addition, the Catholic League has taken out a full page ad (9/22/08 Weekly), “Obama, NARAL, and Infanticide.”

“It’s quite clear what’s going on:  the radical pro-abortionists–and no one is more radical than Obama and NARAL–will even defend selective infanticide if there is one chance in a million that it will chip away at Roe v. Wade.  Incredibly, even NARAL eventually dropped its opposition to the [Born Alive Infants Protection Act] bill, somthing Obama never did.”—William Donahue

Palin on Ahmadinejad: “He must be stopped”

Sarah Palin was scheduled to speak 9/22/08 but her appearance was cancelled.  Read her speech at Terrorism Awareness.